The essayist, then, is in his particular fashion an interpreter of life, a critic of life.

因此， 随笔作家以其特殊的方式充当了人生的解说员， 人生的评论家。

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There is one thing the essayist cannot DO, though — he cannot indulge himself in deceit or in concealment, for he will be found out in no time.

不过有一件事是散文家所不能做的——他不能尽情欺骗或是隐瞒，因为那样一来，他很快就会被别人发觉。

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The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.

随笔作家都是一些自我解放的人，靠一种天真的信念支撑他们，认为凡是他们所思考的、凡是他们所经历的，别人也都感兴趣。

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His subjects are taken, in the essayist's tradition, from the familiar things of life: sport, growing old, name-dropping, taking a nap, popular songs and so on.

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This book was the result of a stint the essayist and philosopher spent at Heathrow in the summer, after its owner, BAA, installed him as a temporary writer-in-residence.

ECONOMIST: Business travel

With apologies to the Scottish essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle, of all the quacks who ever quacked, food activists are the loudest.

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